Jennifer Mae Alvarez’s online boyfriend saw a man’s hand grab Jennifer while they were talking via Webcam on New Year’s Eve 2007. She told him to “hold on,” but never returned to finish their conversation.

Jennifer’s body was found two days later on Wednesday, January 2, 2008, on a canal bank at West Angle Road near the Florida’s Turnpike overpass in Port St. Lucie. She had been stabbed twice – in the neck and the abdomen – with the latter being the fatal wound.

Jennifer told her boyfriend in Arizona that she and her husband, Christopher Alvarez, had been arguing and he had threatened to hurt her. The boyfriend also said he saw Christopher in the background the day he and Jennifer were talking online. After Jennifer didn’t return, the boyfriend called 911 and told dispatchers he was concerned for Jennifer’s well-being. Port St. Lucie police were sent to the home but no one answered. After speaking with police again, the boyfriend said that he had seen Christopher grab Jennifer.

Christopher, 36, was arrested after confessing to stabbing Jennifer. He made a statement admitting to killing his wife after he failed a lie detector test. He told detectives that he and Jennifer were fighting that day and she came at him with a knife, cutting him on the hands and on the back of the leg. He then choked Jennifer and stabbed her with the knife in their home after disarming her. He wrapped her body in a blanket and left her on the canal bank where she was later found.